Hi Guido, > > Lintian can detect that the tarball was repacked by looking inside > > at the first few tar members - a repacked tarball is meant to > > contain only a foo_1.2.3.orig/ directory (devref §6.7.8.2.4) […] > > Don't see a reference to filtering debian/copyright however? > > That part is in #874663. It's in uscan's manpage: > > Files-Excluded or Files-Excluded-component stanzas are set in > debian/copyright to make mk-origtargz invoked from uscan > remove files from the upstream tarball and repack it. > See "COPYRIGHT FILE EXAMPLES" and mk-origtargz(1). > > So if there's a Files-Excluded* in debian/copyright the upstream tarball > was filtered.
Thanks. I've started abstracting things out here: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=13dee7b911b66e1f48d61401b17227bd48680115 Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-